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GOVERNOR DEPLORES VIOLENCE

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1990

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID

TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THAT ANY SORT OF DAMAGE TO PROPERTY OR ANY SORT OF VIOLENCE IS TO BE DEPLORED.

SIR DAVID WAS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO COMMENT ON AN INCIDENT IN WHICH A WINDOW PANE IN AN UNOCCUPIED ROOM OF AN NCNA BUILDING IN HAPPY VALLEY WAS HIT BY A BULLET.

"IT WILL BE INVESTIGATED AND WILL BE DEALT WITH, HE SAID.

STATEMENT ON DEATH OF POLICE CONSTABLE

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THE FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT BY THE ACTING CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR PIERS JACOBS, ON THE DEATH OF POLICE CONSTABLE CHAN KUN-PUN:

"I AM DEEPLY GRIEVED BY THE DEATH OF POLICE CONSTABLE CHAN KUN-PUN AS A DIRECT RESULT OF INJURIES SUSTAINED WHILST ON ANTI-SMUGGLING DUTY.

"THIS TRAGIC INCIDENT HIGHLIGHTS THE DANGERS FACED BY THE MARINE POLICE IN COMBATTING RUTHLESS AND VICIOUS SMUGGLERS. I EXTEND MY SYMPATHIES TO CONSTABLE CIAN'S FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES.

"THE GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO STAMP OUT ALL FORMS OF SMUGGLING. THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF CONSTABLE CHAN WILL ONLY STRENGTHEN OUR RESOLVE TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE."

NO AMNESTY FOR LU'S FROM CHINA

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FOR THE ACTING SECRETARY

SECURITY, MR IAN STRACHAN, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) REFUTED REPORTED RUMOURS THAT THERE WOULD BE AN AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN HONG KONG FROM CHINA.

"THIS IS UTTERLY NOT TRUE. THERE IS, AND WILL BE. NO CHANGE

WHATSOEVER TO OUR EXISTING POLICY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,

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HE SAID.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE ARRESTED WHEN THEY TRY TO COME INTO HONG KONG, AND SENT BACK TO CHINA.

'SIMILARLY, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE FOUND IN HONG KONG WILL ALSO BF ARRESTED AND REPATRIATED.

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